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Trying to make people not hate computers by crafting quality software.
Oct 2, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
I’m angry at myself looking back at the time when I did QA for the most profitable company in the world, for free, in my spare time! One example among many others: github.com/CocoaPods/Xcod…
I won’t count the hours (rather, months) that I put into free QA because I’d get depressed. In this particular case, I even went through the trouble of compiling CoreFoundation (when it was still “open source”) in order to test the patch that I attached to my radar: gist.github.com/0xced/1bfd7055…. At that point it’s not even QA anymore, it’s doing the job. What was I thinking?
Mar 22, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
Here is my story of running MySQL on macOS.
1. Install MySQL 5.7.21, but the installer is fucked: twitter.com/0xced/statuses…
2. Install MySQL 8.0.4 which introduced a new authentication mechanism that neither MySQL Workbench nor Sequel Pro support: blog.gabriela.io/2018/02/22/how… 3. Install Docker, hoping to get a working MySQL container.
4. Test Docker installation by running `docker run hello-world` as instructed on docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac… but get this error: "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at tcp://127.0.0.1:2375. Is the docker daemon running?"